American - Sociologist | 1866 - 1928
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
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The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
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As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
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Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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